Re: Real Audio Goodies

Bård Øvervoll (herb@icenet.no)
Wed, 05 Mar 1997 15:27:47 +0100


Marc Wright wrote:
>
> Bijan Pesaran wrote:
> >
> > Here I was feeling homesick for some good music on the radio
> > when this comes into my life! Thanks a lot Brian. I see that
> > Ashley Beedle is doing the essential mix this week, and
> > the great thing is that you can listen to them over and over!
> >
> > Anybody know how to save these files to disk??
> >
> > bijan
>
> How come I can only get this with huge gaps in it?? Is it something to
> do with me being in Australia? (This is my first attempt with Real
> Audio, and I don't really understand it all - so *anything* could be the
> problem.)
>
> I'm dying to hear what I'm missing out on.
>
> Marc.

Realaudio is streaming audio, wich means that you hear it AS you
download it..allmost. Your player needs to buffer the data-stream so it
wont be 100% dependable on the transmittion but will have a few seconds
of music ready to play *IF* and when the stream of audio for some reason
stops or are delayed. If your connection is too bad, it will use up its
buffered audio, and you have to wait for it to download more music.. im
pretty sure these are the gaps you are refering to.

If you have tried Macromedia's Shockwave-Streaming Audio you probably
know that the problem there is even worse...i dont know why tho.

Unless you allready have, download the RealPlayer (realaudio 4.0)...its
improved ALOT since Realaudio 3.0 + its capable of showing video (even
my 256kb line dont show video as good as i want it too, but its a noble
idea)

Oh..and for some hella nice realaudio from dj shadow, blackalicious,
lateef and the rest of the Solesides crew...visit
http://www.thalandz/solesides/

Oh..allmost forgot... Ive changed email adresses (used to be
herb@solus.com) and i wanna unsubscribe so that i can subscribe with my
new adress... how the hell did you unsubscribe?? im not gonna post a
unsubs. msg to the list..hehehe...i hate them too ;)

peyce....

dj herb
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